Hop Fellows

Eight dynamic performing groups, led by superb professional artists, offer Dartmouth students the chance to work with outstanding professionals in choral music, jazz, gospel, pop, symphonic music, concert band and contemporary dance.

The Hop is much more than a place for arts students and visiting performers. It is also a vital hub where students, faculty and the Dartmouth community connect and share ideas.

The Hop & Call to Lead

As part of The Call to Lead: a campaign for Dartmouth, a strategic investment of $75 million will be made to the historic performing arts center. More than $15 million has already been generously committed by members and friends of the Hop. The expansion will further animate the burgeoning Arts District as an internationally recognized center of creativity and experiential learning.

One of the questions Hop employees are asked most frequently is, "Who chooses the artists who come to the Hop?" The answer: Many people. The Hopkins Center for the Arts Programming Committee includes...

The 2019/20 Live in HD season features ten transmissions, including five new productions: the Met premiere of Philip Glass's groundbreaking 20th-century opera Akhnaten starring Anthony Roth Costanzo...

Held in both Hanover and Claremont, NH, children and families enjoy free performances designed to entertain and introduce young children to the world of dance, music, theater and storytelling. These...

About the Hop

The Hopkins Center’s mission is to ignite and sustain a passion for the arts within Dartmouth and its greater community and to provide the core educational environment for the study, creation and presentation of the arts.